LINDA WELLS, EDITOR, "ALLURE": Well, part of the statistics might be somewhat misleading, because they're compared to 10 years ago when silicone breast implants were bad, but still we're seeing increases in breast reductions, breast implants, breast lifts, tummy tucks, which is a really elaborate operation.

The warning about "refusing to have dresses too much trimmed" is fun in the light of earlier discussion about the recent LACK of detail in dressmaking...though there is often still a lot of FUSSINESS on clothes also previously discussed, which is certainly different than details, such as tucks, which can actually improve fit and style.

The "tucks" he speaks of could have been no very agreeable addition to the salted beer; for, as he himself explains it, a few lines above, "to tuck" consisted in "setting the nail of the thumb to their chin, just under the lip, and by the help of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him a mark, which sometimes would produce blood."